#1045 FX SCHMID – GRAND PRIX, PS AUF SCHIENEN and BUSSE (1984 and 1985)

This entry will be a lazy one, as I will only be presenting three new mini decks of cards made by FX Schmid, similar to other I have shown in the past and which have the checkered flag pattern in the cover card. The “Minis” in this entry are slightly more modern (see #857 and #858, which includes a more modern version of Grand Prix), and I also showed some big decks with the checkered pattern before (see #736).

As usual in the mini quartet decks, there are only 6 families instead of 8, and that makes 24 cards plus the cover card.

The first two were released in 1984, the last on in 1985. I like them all a lot, especially the one with buses, which is a not so common theme for a quartett game.

GRAND PRIX (No. 56510.0) from 1984

PS AUF SCHIENEN (No. 56510.0) from 1984

BUSSE (No. 50044.6) from 1985

This cover card has the copyright in it, not the other two.

FACTS AND FIGURES

• Name: GRAND PRIX, PS AUF SCHIENEN and BUSSE (No. 56510.0, 56510.0 and 50044.6)
• Year: 1984, 1984 and 1985
• Company: FX Schmid (West Germany)

#933 FX SCHMID - SIGFRIED DIE NIBELUNGEN (60720) (1966)

There was a time in which big movie events were rare, really big movies that children were waiting for months to come, premiered only a couple of times per year. Among these superproductions, some even had merchandise produced to be sold in kiosks or toy stores. Nowadays, this is something very common.

Each country had their own favorite themes, many of them related to their historical epic events or literary works. In this case, Germany was looking back at "the Nibelungs", the German epic poem written around the year 1200. In 1966 and 1967 it was taken to the screen in two parts in a production of Constantin Films. The first part was Siegfried von Xanten and the second one Kriemhilds Rache.

This deck was done for the first movie from 1966, and is the classic card deck with 9 families, that when read in order explains the plot of the movie with one rather big picture and a short line of text in each card. I haven´t seen the movie, but the pictures are great, I guess it was a big success in Germany and Scandinavia.

There is a second deck for the second part of the movie, but I do not have it yet.

FACTS AND FIGURES:

• Name:  SIGFRIED DIE NIBELUNGEN (60720)
• Year: 1966
• Company: FX Schmid (Germany)

#858 FX SCHMID - SUPER TRUMPF (MINIS) - FEUERSTÜHLE, ALLRAD, HEIßE ÖFEN (1988 and 1990)

And continuing the previous entry, here are three more mini quartetts from the same series, year and similar themes.

FEUERSTÜHLE (Motorbikes)

ALLRAD (4x4)

HEIßE ÖFEN (Motorbikes)

This set of cards seems to be an update of Feuerstühle, since most of the cards are the same. Probably this one was released a couple of years, later, maybe around 1990.

The instructions are printed at the back of the cover card.

FACTS AND FIGURES:

• Name: SUPER TRUMPF (MINIS) - FEUERSTÜHLE (No. 56513.1), ALLRAD (No. 56513.1), HEIßE ÖFEN (No. 56511.7)
• Year: 1988
• Company: FX Schmid (Germany)

#857 FX SCHMID - SUPER TRUMPF (MINIS) - GRAND PRIX, RALLYE, TOTAL IRRE, AUF ACHSE, JETS, TIERE AUS ALLER WELT (1988)

A few years ago, I found some more quartetts in a shop as they were getting rid of old stock, and I bought all they had (well, one of each kind). Most of them are technical quartetts, with the only exception of "Tiere aus aller Welt", that is a rather typical animal quartett, and whose cover card has a different design.

I already had some mini quartetts from FX Schmid, they were even presented in this blog a long time ago (see #197). Compared to those Mini Super Trumpfs, these have a different cover design, since they are a few years newer than the series that brought us the famous Horror and Spuk quartetts.

Interestingly, all other quartetts carry the same reference number: No. 56513.1, maybe because they were sold to retailers in one big package including quartetts of different themes. The "Animal" quartett does not have a reference nummer.

All quartetts are based in their "bigger brothers", and have been reduced in size, but also in number of cards, since this small decks count only 24 cards each (6 families instead of 8), plus cover card, and maybe some more with advertisements of other FX Schmid products.

The decks presented in this entry are:
Grand Prix (Formula 1)

Rally

Total Irre (Custom Cars and Vans)

Auf Achse (Trucks)

Jets

Tiere aus aller Welt

Some of the boxes still have the price tag in. 16 Austrian Schilling.

Note that Auf Achse is also a popular board game by the same company FX Schmid. It was awarded game of the year in Germany in 1987. See promotional card included in all quartett set except "Tiere aus aller Welt".

FACTS AND FIGURES:

• Name: SUPER TRUMPF (MINIS) - GRAND PRIX, RALLYE, TOTAL IRRE, AUF ACHSE, JETS, TIERE AUS ALLER WELT
• Year: 1988
• Company: FX Schmid (Germany)